Mobile Engineer - Android
Location: US, CA, San Francisco
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Associate
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Computer Software
Function: Engineering

Company profile:
TidePool is a Quantified Self platform that focuses on Brain fitness. Using patented games and data collected implicitly on mobile, we help you understand how your personality, cognitive thinking and mood influence your daily performance. You can even link Tidepool to sensor devices like Fitbit. We are among the final 30 companies selected to launch our initial pilot at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013.We are a lean team including successful start up founders and scientists with domain expertise in Gaming and Neuro-Psychology. We are backed and supported by some very well respected investors like RedPoint Ventures (Geoff Yang), Michael Dearing, Mike Hirshland, Tim Draper and such.  As a team we believe in the culture of freedom and responsibility. At TidePool, you'll find us working in a fast paced agile environment where each member has a voice in feature decisions, architecture, and visual design. You'll never stop learning here and we are at a size where every bit of your work directly shapes the company each day. 

Job description:
Develop amazing games and applications to improve brain healthWe are looking for a strong software engineer experienced in building Android applications, especially games.Responsibilities:Define and deliver applications that demonstrate the future of Quantified Self revolution on mobile devicesDevelop fun mini Android games and applications that challenge users’ cognitive functions and give insights about the way their brains work.Build snazzy animations and push Android capabilities to its limits to give the best user experience. We are shooting for not just being featured in the app store, but also win the best application award for 2014.

Requirements:
You are experienced in native Android development – Java and Android SDK.You have built quite a few applications, even better, games for Android and we can check them out in the Google Play Store.You can use your math skills to come up with the best algorithms to implement the delicious animations and game mechanics our designers come up with.You are a craftsman, and care about your code quality. Also at the same time not hesitate to take well-calculated shortcuts and pay that debt later.Action-oriented: Your style is characterized by urgency, focus and discipline. You are assertive, honest, takes charge yet gracious and collaborative.Self-starter: You are comfortable working in a rapidly changing environment with limited resources and ad-hoc processes.Work Ethic/ Integrity: An outstanding work ethic, high integrity and winner’s attitude. 

Benefits:
TidePool is a Quantified Self platform that focuses on Brain fitness. Using patented games and data collected implicitly on mobile, we help you understand how your personality, cognitive thinking and mood influence your daily performance. You can even link Tidepool to sensor devices like Fitbit. We are among the final 30 companies selected to launch our initial pilot at TechCrunch recently.We are a lean team including successful start up founders and scientists with domain expertise in Gaming and Neuro-Psychology. We are backed and supported by some very well respected investors like RedPoint Ventures (Geoff Yang), Michael Dearing, Mike Hirshland, Tim Draper and such.  As a team we believe in the culture of freedom and responsibility. At TidePool, you'll find us working in a fast paced agile environment where each member has a voice in feature decisions, architecture, and visual design. You'll never stop learning here and we are at a size where every bit of your work directly shapes the company each day.  We're located in the beautiful San Francisco (near South Park and AT&amp;T ball park), offering great health benefits, gym memberships, flexible vacation and work hours, public transportation subsidies, and lots of food on hand. We are willing to fly you in for interviews and even relocate you to the sunnier side.Life is what you make it and TidePool is offering you a brand new way to negotiate yours…Join us and be a part of the change that you’d like to see in the world!